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garden.something.meeting

Eugene Shimalsky 7 episodes Latest Jun 2, 2026

A podcast exploring the void through conversations with artists, scientists, and writers. It airs on ResonanceFM and is available on all platforms. Music episodes and mixtapes are hosted on Mixcloud.

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In total darkeness, is poetry still there? Talk with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh. Jun 2, 2026 01:52:32 Iranian-American philosopher Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh joins me for a garden walk - through evil and madness, secrets, games. Poetry that sits at the start of every civilization, rave cultures in active war zones, programmers who can dance, horror films as the real history of reality, mysticism as transaction, and the praying mantis.Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Middle E
Accelerating Potlatch. Talk with with John Cussans . Jun 2, 2026 01:39:31 A free-flowing talk with artist, writer, and arts educator John Cussans about potlatch, the Bataillean concept of excessive, communal expenditure, and whether figures like Trump represent a perverse modern version of it.A note on how John stopped consuming news entirely, the lost promise of the 1990s anarchist internet , the political polarization narrative, and the toll lacanian marxism takes on
Flying vegetables of the Apocalypse. In memoriam of Guy Klucevsek. Jun 2, 2026 00:14:47 A special episode in memory of Guy Klucevsek. Sort of degerate radioplay in the spirit of Patrik Ouředník.No music here, just news and fake news of funerals and beheadings, Marlon Brando, degenerative art, mushroom poisoning, trump fragrances, Darwin's relations to bees, high IQ religion, Nick Land, Baudrillard, Collins and Crickillon and Avicenna. To listen with the music: https://www.mixclou
Code: Damp. Talk with Sophie Sleigh-Johnson. Jun 2, 2026 00:59:50 Writer and artist Sophie Sleigh-Johnson unpacks her Code: Damp, An Esoteric Guide to British Sitcoms. From the marshes of Essex to alchemy, folklore, darts and the local newspaper, we explore how two 1970s sitcoms hide a strange occult code, and why damp records the past.
The saints knew it all along. Talk with Michael Levin. Jun 2, 2026 00:59:55 The episode about how mind and intelligence are fundamental and widespread (even if it doesn't seem like they are when you listen to the news). The discussion moves from regenerative medicine and aging to the deeper questions of how we recognize and ethically engage with unfamiliar minds, where ancient spiritual intuitions meet modern science, and what place hold in a world filling with hybrid
Mysticism is a playlist. Talk with Simon Critchley. Jun 2, 2026 00:59:16 We talk about "On Mysticism" book and around it.Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research. Over more than twenty books he's tackled Greek tragedy, David Bowie, football, suicide, and how philosophers die.This episode originally aired in February 2025 on ResonanceFM.
Determined not to get an ulcer. Talk with Robert Sapolsky. Jun 2, 2026 00:59:22 Turles, tumors, horrors all the way down?Robert Sapolsky thinks you have no free will. The Stanford neuroscientist, primatologist, and bestselling author of Behave and Determined argues that every choice you make was set in motion by biology and circumstance long before you "decided." We talk agency, blame, and what's left of the self.

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